The new home of The Digital Cuttlefish is at http://freethoughtblogs.com/cuttlefish . I hope to see you there!

Saturday, October 11, 2008

A Quack Guide To Intelligent Evolution

A quick and simple (in every sense of the word) guide to Intelligent Evolution makes good use of our old friend circular reasoning, assuming its conclusions all the way to proving the existence of the intelligent designer, simply by assuming that A) DNA is an example of "design" and B) all designs require a designer. They could have saved a step, by instead of using two false assumptions, simply assuming their final conclusion in one step, but I suppose that would have taken the fun out of it.

The code contained in DNAIs evidence, or so they say,God’s handiwork, there on display, the product of His Mind.It’s plainly seen by any foolIt’s more than just a moleculeBut rather, a precision tool that shows that we’re designed!

This molecule contains the cluesCreationists can gladly useTo show we did not come from ooze, through natural selection;No “nature, red in tooth and claw”But God, in wonderment and aweCreated, like a man of straw, his image in reflection.

This Holy Blueprint I assumeIs proof we’re woven on God’s loom,Created by the one to Whom we’re in eternal debtThe fact that I assumed it, true,Could leave my “therefores” all askewBut have I ever lied to you? I wouldn’t take that bet.

You might suggest my logic’s flawed,That my conclusion’s over-broad,Or go all out and call me fraud—I’m doing righteous work!I figured “What would Jesus do,To have God’s message shining through?”He’d lie, and cheat, and misconstrue, and be a total jerk!

And what’s important isn’t factsBut saving souls, and so the tractsSay “judge them by their righteous acts” like lying in His name—My logic’s circularityIs more than mere hilarityIt’s honest Christian charity… and really, that’s a shame.